MapThat – Scale Print Filter

By David Crowther

Cadline is pleased to announce we have updated the MapThat – Scale Printing tool to allow users to filter their layer before printing!

Using the MapThat > Scale Printing tool you can print your mapping layers and chosen basemap to any number of paper sizes and scales.

And now we have updated the MapThat – Scale Print tool to provide the user with a simple FILTER menu allowing them to choose which feature or set of features to print!

Filter Scale Printing:

If enabled, a user can now use the Filter option at the top of the New Print Job menu, to filter records in any Layer before you run a Scale Print job.

Firstly, choose the Filter Layer option to decide which layer you wish to filter. In this example we will choose our Planning Apps layer.

Then, choose the Filter On field, and in this example, we will choose the Location value.

In our example we have an area of grass on the roundabout, but below this is a Rosebed that we cannot see. So, in the Value we will type the word Rosebed.

Having typed the value, choose the Filter button to apply the filter to the map objects.

The map objects are then filtered to only show features where the Location = Rosebed.

Now that the Layer is filtered, we can more easily see the map object that we wish to print, in this case the Rosebed, and we can continue to choose the Scale Print options to then run the print job.

As soon as the Print Job is set to run, when you now choose another menu, the Filter on the Layer will be removed and all other map features for that layer will show.

If we check our new Scale Print PDF, we can see the layer was successfully filtered to only print the Rosebed feature.

This is a great enhancement to the MapThat – Scale Print tool, as it enables your users to print only the features that they are specifically interested in!